Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables has a long history with the school he now leads as head coach. He began coaching there in 1999 as a co-defensive coordiantor and linebackers coach and held those roles until 2003.

Looking toward the sky, a young Josh Heupel watched as snowflakes fell on the recently cleared ground. While the weather continued to decorate the South Dakota soil, Heupel kept shoveling anyway, unaware that this would one day be a metaphor for his life.

This will be the first time that Heupel and Venables, who spent plenty of time together at Oklahoma, have faced off on opposing sidelines as head coaches